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4 Critical Characteristics of High-Quality Instructional Content

Edsurge

We asked teachers what they want from edtech. In fact, whereas teachers’ use of textbooks remained approximately the same from 2015 to 2017, their use of digital resources for standards-aligned teaching greatly increased. Sources Consulted: Picking and choosing digital content. Here's what they said.

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How to Differentiate Teaching for the advancement of student Thinking Skills: Simplifying Approaches to Teaching & Learning Series (Part 5)

100mentors

In the current installment, we will see how a cluster of specific thinking skills, that are put forward by both the IBO and contemporary educational research, can surface through differentiated teaching. Acknowledge your students as individual learners through differentiated instruction.

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Engaging Lessons for the Next-Gen Connected Creators – SULS0160

Shake Up Learning

Providing whole class instruction, small groups, assign differentiated instruction, collaborative work, or individual practice. Monica was Teacher of the Year in 2015-16 school year at Cheatham Hill Elementary and the 3rd place Voya Unsung Hero award winner of. Monica holds a Ph.D. © Shake Up Learning 2022.

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Million-Dollar Advice: The High Cost and Limited Return on Personalized Learning Consulting

Edsurge

In July of 2015, the district paid more than $400,000 for alignment, strategy and professional services from Education Elements, a for-profit personalized learning consultant, according to receipts obtained by EdSurge from the district. In less than two years, between 2015 and 2017, the district paid more than $4.5

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Why Technology in the Classroom is a Necessity for 21st Century Learning

eSpark

A recent study shows that the number of preschool classrooms using tablets doubled from 2013 to 2015, and research conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation indicates that “the adoption of personalized learning approaches has increased significantly in recent years due in part to rapid advances in technology platforms and digital content.”

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Why Classroom Technology is a Necessity for 21st Century Learning

eSpark

A recent study shows that the number of preschool classrooms using tablets doubled from 2013 to 2015, and research conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation indicates that “the adoption of personalized learning approaches has increased significantly in recent years due in part to rapid advances in technology platforms and digital content.”

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Inside DC Schools: The Struggle to Develop Personalized Learning’s Independent Learners

Edsurge

One of the lines in the sand that I have drawn from the very beginning is that this is not an edtech tool. Summit officials say more than $20 million was invested into the tool in 2017 alone. One of the lines in the sand that I have drawn from the very beginning is that this is not an edtech tool. Diane Tavenner, Summit CEO .